Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Railway land at Shalimar was acquired during the time of Late Madhav Rao Scindia's tenure as railway minister for the construction of a full-fledged terminal.
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hopes to boost Railways’ revenues by setting up such hubs
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
KolkataMamata invites investment in Kolkata automobile hub Tata Motors official attends foundation laying ceremony KOLKATA: A senior representative of the Tata group of companies on Saturday attended the foundation laying ceremony for an automobile hub by Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee near the Shalimar Railway station close to the city.G. S. Meakan, Head...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
MangaloreRailway officials had sought extension of train to Karwar Govind D. Belgaumkar Abstract timetable for the extended train was approved KRCL had held that Karwar station lacked facilities for terminating trainsSangha terms KRCL’s reasoning unacceptable and misleadingMANGALORE: It has now come to light that senior officials from the three railway zones had favoured extension of...
India eNews (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has defended her decision to rope in intellectuals and theatre personalities into railway committees and their so-called hefty salaries that have come under criticism from the ruling Left Front in West Bengal.
India eNews (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
While ruling out divestment of any unit under her ministry, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked the government to consider giving shares of state-run companies it planned to disinvest to the employees.
Sify (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress is the second largest constituent in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene an all-party meeting on the price rise issue.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Calcutta, Nov. 22: Railway minister Mamata Banerjee today defended her right to appoint members of the culture clan to the utility's committees.
India eNews (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress is the second largest constituent in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene an all-party meeting on the price rise issue.
Naxal Terror Watch (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Marya Shakil / CNN-IBN New Delhi: The Railways seem to have become an easy target of Naxal attacks. In a recent attack, Naxals blew up a railway track in Jharkhand on Thursday night derailing eight bogies of a passenger train in which at least one person was killed and 29 others injured. Earlier, they held up a Delhi-bound Rajdhani express train in West Midnapore district of West...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday laid the foundation stone for an automobile hub at Shalimar in Howrah. It is the first of 10 such hubs that railways has proposed to....
India eNews (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
There's a deadline coming up and many ministers are suddenly burning the midnight oil. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants his entire cabinet to submit performance reports of the functioning of each ministry by Nov 30.
Naxal Terror Watch (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
27 Nov 2009, 0409 hrs IST, ET Bureau NEW DELHI: As fresh violence broke out in certain areas of West Bengal, railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday demanded that despatching of a central team to the Left-ruled state for an on-the-spot assessment of the situation. The Trinamool Congress chief met finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and home minister P Chidambaram...
